RUSH: Wow. I love it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Got a couple of quick things on your first hour. You were talking about education, the student loans and all that. I think you\u2019re absolutely right, there\u2019s the false image that\u2019s portrayed that if we don\u2019t go to college, that we\u2019re gonna be failures.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/DIttoheadNation.jpg\"\/)
<\/p>\n
CALLER: You know? That we can\u2019t just go out there and do like our fathers and our grandfathers did and just be true entrepreneurs and, you know, follow our dreams like —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Exactly right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — something you talk about a lot.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You don\u2019t have a prayer.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You don\u2019t have a chance.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And I think the other thing that\u2019s associated with that is there\u2019s this big social status that is attached to going to college. It kind of starts a class warfare like we\u2019re kinda talking about here with what\u2019s going on with the Wall Street deal. Another point I wanted to make was that the left is using this dream and this Mecca, as I would call it, of going to college, they try to get all these people in there and then they indoctrinate a lot of them with these false —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yep. That\u2019s one of the primary purposes, one of the main objectives on the left, is controlling education. No question about it.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Who\u2019s next? Tim in Dana Point, California. Great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Good morning, Rush. Ninety-nine point nine percent dittos from a Vietnam vet. Anyway, my issue this morning is kind of on behalf of the voters, Republicans, Democrats, and across the board is that I wonder what the love quotient, perhaps, would be between the college students and the parents if they were to say Obama\u2019s got this great idea, all you have to do is cosign your house on behalf of me for my education, and you know that you owe it to me, I\u2019m your kid, and I will pay you back, and that way we would put the onus on the people themselves. So let\u2019s see then what would happen with the voters in looking at Obama\u2019s prospects if he has to reword this bill which will not pass through the Congress and see what happens then.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I lost you. Are you suggesting that parents be forced to cosign their kids\u2019 student loans and then if that happened, there would be far few student loans taken out?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I believe so.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, so if there are fewer student loans taken out because parents would not want to extend themselves to cosign something $210,000, for example, then what? Fewer people would end up going to college.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s true. But somebody else would have to pay, other than the people that don\u2019t have any assets or don\u2019t have any kids or they pay their taxes all year round —<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s what\u2019s happening now.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I realize. So if they were forced to cosign, I would bet that they do in fact have a lot less people going to school, and then let\u2019s see what else Obama has up his sleeve next to try to circumvent that issue.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, that\u2019s an interesting thought. Make the parents — of course, you know, now you\u2019re introducing something that is very, very foreign, a very foreign concept in 2011, and that is that parents are responsible for their kids. That would be something that, a lot of parents would, “What? I\u2019m responsible for my kids\u2019 education? Hell with that.” But if the parents cosign — what am I missing here? (interruption) Instead of all the other taxpayers, the parents cosign a car loan, parents cosign on this, why not the student loan? Well, true, they get to stay on the health care, but they have to pay for that. That was something they didn\u2019t expect to be part of the deal. They thought they were gonna be allowed to stay on their parents\u2019 health care policy at no charge to age 26. They didn\u2019t realize that it was going to cost them. Remember, now, parents are only responsible for kids until they are 26 under health care. So co-signing for student loans, yeah, probably would be a lot fewer people going to college.<\/p>\n
Mark in Mobile, Alabama, hi, great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Mega dittos from the buckle of the Bible Belt, Rush. I want to talk about the student loan program.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I am a Rush Baby. I started listening at the age of 15 when I took my first government class in high school, and this student loan program is seductive. I was lucky enough to go to a conservative college. I graduated with $50,000 in student loans. When this program came out, I did the math and said, “I\u2019m gonna save about 150 to $200 a month,” and I started thinking, wow, this is great. After all this time of them giving handouts to everyone, finally something comes to me and then it hit me. Wait a second, I\u2019m gonna pay for this either way. I\u2019m either gonna pay for it now or I\u2019m gonna pay for it in taxes. I\u2019m putting money in my right hand pocket to take it out of my left. And the goal I believe, and you certainly can tell me more on this, but I think they\u2019re just trying to get the middle class to be dependent on them as well. They\u2019ve already got the lower socioeconomic status. Now they\u2019re trying to get the middle class.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, there\u2019s no question that that\u2019s what this is about. That\u2019s been going on for a while. The middle class is on the hooks long before the student loan program came along.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, that may be. I wasn\u2019t on the hook, though, and now they\u2019re trying to get me on the hook as well. And that scares me. I\u2019m afraid of it\u2019s gonna buy him a lot of votes in 2012.<\/p>\n
RUSH: How are they trying to get you on the hook?<\/p>\n
CALLER: By saying that we\u2019re gonna lower the amount of your monthly payments, we\u2019re going to forgive your loan after 20 years of payments. Well, now, I\u2019m suddenly dependent on the government to erase my student loan.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, that\u2019s true, but it\u2019s difficult to illustrate here but the dirty little secret here is that this is gonna end up affecting so few people. It\u2019s a big sales pitch, and the people that it does help is gonna save \u2019em four to eight dollars a month. This is so outrageous. I don\u2019t quite know how to express what a ruse the whole thing is other than to tell you it is a campaign optic, it\u2019s no different than putting forth a tax bill that you call a jobs bill. The Affordable Care Act is anything but affordable. Obamacare, there\u2019s nothing affordable about it, there\u2019s nothing far-reaching about it. None of the legislation coming out of this regime does anything it is named to do.<\/p>\n
Again, this jobs bill, it\u2019s not a jobs bill; it is a tax bill. And the student loan bill, one of the first things Obama did was move in to corner the market and to take it over from the banks for the express purpose of having people owing the government. When they have the power to forgive your loan, when they have the power to limit what you pay on the loan, when they have the power to seduce you… imagine you\u2019re faced with the repayment of a student loan that you think is $210,000 and Obama comes along and says, “You know what? After 20 years, we\u2019re gonna forgive it, and we\u2019re only gonna make you pay 10% of what you earn if you take a job in social services.”<\/p>\n
What are they doing? They\u2019re controlling what you do, they\u2019re controlling how you choose to live your life, and you\u2019re choosing to live your life in such a way as to limit the damage government can do to you. That\u2019s what all this is really about, and all of it\u2019s happening under the guise of compassion. All of it\u2019s happening under the guise that Republicans hate you. “Republicans want you dead. Republicans want dirty water, they want dirty air, they want the poison everywhere! The Republicans don\u2019t care about you but look at what we\u2019re doing.” In the process all that\u2019s happening here is that people buy into this, go into debt with student loans, and then they are at the mercy of the regime. If you end up registering Democrat, that will be known.<\/p>\n
If you vote Democrat, you\u2019ll be looked upon with better favor than somebody who votes Republican. If Obama via executive order (or any other Democrat leader) wants to forgive your loan based on good behavior from you, and they do it, they own you — and that\u2019s what this is all about. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question about it. In terms of saving people money, again, the numbers of people this is actually going to affect… We\u2019ll just wait. It\u2019s gonna take a while, but you will see that I am right about this. It isn\u2019t gonna be long, a couple or three years. Remember this day, remember this week with Obama promising all these wonderful reforms in the student loan program and how it\u2019s gonna reduce your costs and the burden of paying these loans back is going to be greatly reduced.<\/p>\n
![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125108.Par.89380.ImageFil.jpg\"\/)
In fact, the opposite happens: Life gets tougher, things get more expensive, you lose more flexibility and freedom. But that\u2019s of no concern because all that they\u2019re after now is your vote and your support. So that\u2019s all this stuff is, is just campaign optics. Don\u2019t forget — it was last week, two weeks, three weeks ago — the news hit that the regime asked for the authority to track you down on your cell phone if you were in arrears on your student loan and to harass you for repayment. Most people are using cell phones, there\u2019s not a cell phone phone book out there like there was and is for land line phones. The regime has asked for permission, or authority, to get hold of people\u2019s cell phone numbers for the purpose of calling them and harassing them on pavement of student loans. So while you\u2019re made to think here that you\u2019re getting a free ride or a relaxation of your responsibilities, it isn\u2019t gonna be the case at all.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: To Syracuse, New York, this is Sean. Glad you called, sir, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. You are up next.<\/p>\n
CALLER: How you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Very good, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. Let me get right to the point here. I\u2019m a conservative and I survived four years of liberal indoctrination at a college institution. And basically I was a — I was a criminal justice major, and I could have finished any criminal justice degree in two years and I was forced to take ridiculous classes like Human Growth and Development, Religious Person Traditions, Buddhism — things that I wouldn\u2019t need to learn for a criminal justice degree. It\u2019s how they keep you there for four years. It\u2019s a money-maker.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now you are a person, you\u2019re a guy after my own heart, because this was one of my main complaints. I told my dad when he\u2019s telling me what all was gonna happen to me when I didn\u2019t go to the college, I said, “Look, if I could go there and learn what I want to learn that is relevant so what I want to do, I\u2019ll be there every day. You wouldn\u2019t be able to keep me out. But if I gotta take ballroom dancing, if I I\u2019ve gotta take Human Growth 101 and learn about boiling water before I drink it, I don\u2019t care about that.”<\/p>\n
“Son, these people are professional educators. It\u2019s their job to understand how to best educate the largest number of people. It\u2019s called a well-rounded education.”<\/p>\n
I said, “I don\u2019t want one. I want a targeted education.”<\/p>\n
Yeah, I know. This is the point. Let me make something very clear: I understand well-rounded person and all of that. My only point is some people aren\u2019t cut out for it. Education has to be structured, like I said. You have 200 people in the classroom; you can\u2019t tailor it to every individual in that will these. There has to be a curriculum. It has to be based on what the educators think is the best way to create a, quote, unquote, “educated person.” I understand all that. It just wasn\u2019t for me. It is expensive, but it just wasn\u2019t for me. I am not… I don\u2019t want anybody to misunderstand here. I am not telling you to punt college. I\u2019m not telling you that\u2019s the route that you should take. But I do understand that it is an institution controlled by the left, and I don\u2019t trust \u2019em.<\/p>\n
It is an institution that is controlled and dominated by the left, and I know what their purpose is. Particularly higher education, but you don\u2019t have to go higher education to hear the horror stories. It\u2019s much differentiate than when I was in school. There wasn\u2019t any indoctrination. There wasn\u2019t certainly wasn\u2019t any ideological indoctrination. Now, I would have to admit all the teachers I had growing up were pro-America. Now, today, that would be “controversial.” Pro-America is pro-imperialistic, pro-racist, pro-whatever to a lot of sickos today. But when I went to high school and junior high, American history was taught from the standpoint of American greatness. The founding of the country was taught within the context of how miraculous it was, not as it\u2019s taught today: A crime. (interruption)<\/p>\n
No, I didn\u2019t have to take women\u2019s studies courses! And you know something else? (If you think I\u2019m in trouble now, wait \u2019til you hear this.) When I went to school they had home ec for women. You didn\u2019t need Michelle Obama with a garden in the White House telling people what\u2019s healthy or not; the schools taught it! ‘Cause dirty little secret is: Cooking isn\u2019t fun. It is a chore, and it was something that was taught how to be done for the right nutrition and all that. There was home ec back then! But it\u2019s all changed now. I wouldn\u2019t want to have any part of it. I wouldn\u2019t want to have to go to a class called American history and listen to a teacher tell me how my country sucks and then give me the answers to the tests so that she could get away with propagandizing me while making it look like she\u2019s teaching me something when she\u2019s not. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on in American schools, and it\u2019s not for me, and it wouldn\u2019t be for my kids. My kids wouldn\u2019t survive if I had any. They would have been tossed out along with me after one year of the garbage that suffices for an education these days in way too many schools in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Matthew in Fort Worth, Texas, you\u2019re up first today. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush. RUSH: You bet, sir. CALLER: I\u2019m a longtime listener. I consider myself a Rush Baby. I\u2019ve been listening to you about 20 years now. RUSH: Wow. I love it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n